On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:15:22PM -0400, Coffin Michael C wrote: > I had coded the third octet as .035. instead of .35. VM's TCPIP took the > 152.225.035.249 without any difficulty. But all of my Linux/390 guests > CHANGED the .035. to .29 - so this same address on a Linux/390 guest would > be 152.225.29.249. I was totally perplexed, and after hours of scratching > my head I changed one of these to just .35. and low and behold it worked!
ifconfig appears, therefore, to act like many Unix utilities: a leading "0" means that the number is to be interpreted as octal. Octal 35 is 3*8 + 5, or....29. I bet you can use 0x1D to get 29 as well. Adam
